US Women's Soccer team threaten Olympic boycott unless they get equal pay with men's team

Lloyd (pictured) said the team is 'sick' of not getting equal pay and 'we are done with it'

We are 'sick of being treated like second-class citizens' - Carli Lloyd

She and four members of the women's team filed a wage-discrimination complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Men's pay yearly for 20 games is $100,000 compared to $72,000 for women

Per game pay for men's soccer is $5,000 and women's pay is $3,600

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The US Women's Soccer team has raised a possible threat of boycotting the August Olympics in Rio unless they get equal pay.

Two-time
Olympic gold medal winner and member of the 2015 World Cup winning
team, Carli Lloyd, is one of four women spearheading equal pay for the
women's soccer team.

Lloyd
along with Hope Solo, Megan Rapinoe, Alex Morgan and Becky Sauerbrunn
filed a wage-discrimination complaint with the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission seeking equal pay on behalf of the whole team in
late March, according to NBC.

US
women's soccer team co-captain Sauerbrunn said players could decide in
July to boycott August's Olympics if nothing has changed regarding the
complaint.

And the numbers broken down per game put the men's team members making $5,000 and the women's team members with just $3,600

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